Çekmeköy

The water level in Istanbul's dams has fallen to 29.92 percent, the lowest in a year, after months of insufficient rainfall.

This marks a sharp decline from April's average of 82.62 percent, with three dams — Alibeyköy, Kazandere and Pabuçdere — now below 10 percent of their full capacity. Elmalı Dam is the only one above 50 percent, at 51.61 percent."

Özyeğin University's "Yaklaş 2030 Program" aims to raise awareness about the global water problem by using a drying stream on campus as the basis for the student projects exhibited at the "Greenhack" event organized on the occasion of World Environment Day.

With Türkiye facing blazing temperatures fueled by El Nino, an expert has expressed concerns over the amount of water lost by evaporation from Istanbul dams, as the Ömerli Dam is losing alarming 17,000 tons of water with each passing hour.

Gülnur Aybet, a senior adviser to the Turkish Presidency, has been appointed as the permanent representative of Turkey to UNESCO.

The decision of the appointment was published in the Official Gazette on Nov. 20.

Turkey's real estate investment trust Emlak Konut GYO is poised to put about 35,000 houses on the market starting from the final quarter of this year, its CEO has said.

"We are planning to start selling [houses of] 12 new projects in Istanbul in the final quarter of this year," daily Hürriyet quoted Hakan Gedikli as saying on Sept. 25.

Heavy rain and hail hit some districts of Istanbul's Asian side, particularly Çekmeköy and Sultanbeyli.

Residents of those affected areas covered their vehicles with carpets and blankets to protect them from the hailstones.

Motorists in Çekmeköy had to take cover under a bridge to wait for the heavy rain and hail which lasted for some one hour with intervals.

Three Turkish universities, Koç University, Özyeğin University and Istanbul Gelişim University, have made the shortlist for Times Higher Education's (THE) first awards ceremony celebrating the achievement of Asian universities.

A Turkish man with Cerebral Palsy will head to the United States to study, with the help of his mother's encouragement and efforts.

Murat Can Çiçek won a scholarship from Google and will move to California with his mother, Nilgün Çiçek, 55. 

Five new metro lines will run in Istanbul in the coming days, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş has said. 

Topbaş said the instructions of the new metro lines will begin as soon as the tender process finalizes. 

An Istanbul court revoked an amendment on June 11 for the construction plans of the access roads to Istanbul?s third bridge, which is being built in the northern part of the city. The court?s move may halt the bridge?s progress, as the construction of link roads will lose their legal ground.